Method of weaving initials, names, monograms, &amp;c.



No. 744,579. PATENTED'NO'V117, 1903.

V JVLUGAS & 0. VORSTEHER. METHOD OF WEAVING INITIALS, NAMES, MONOGRAMS, 6w.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 4, 1902.

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UNITED I STATES Patented November 17,1903;

PATENT OFFICE;

METHOD OF WEAVING INITIALS, NAMES, MONOGBAMS, do.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,579, dated November 17, 1903.

Application filed August 4, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JULIUS LUCAS and OAR-L VORSTEHER, subjects of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Barmen, Rhenish Prussia,Germany, have invented a new and useful Method of Weaving Initials, Names, Monograms, and the Like, of which the followingis a specification.

Our invention refers to anew and improved method for imitating embroidered initials, monograms, and the like by weaving them on a piece of cloth and sewing said piece to underclothing, household linen, and the like, or by weaving said monograms in the fabric.

Our invention is particularly adapted for initials being woven in white material on a white ground, said initials having the advantage over such made according to the old weaving system that they cannot be pressed flat by washing and ironing and that they always remain in their elevated position, which is not the case with the method hitherto used.

In order to carry our invention into effect, we proceed as follows: The ground is woven as usual in taifeta or other suitable binding wherever it is not coveredby the figure. The warp-threads being covered by the figure are not bound with the weft-threads, as usual, but are lying loosely between the ground-weft and figure-weft or below both said weftthreads. If the figure-weft is then bound in the ground, the Warp-threads are drawn together, formingthus a cushion for the figure, which assumes then an elevated position, like hand embroidery, and Will remain so and not pressed flat by washing and ironing. In the same manner as the warp-threads are used for that purpose alsothe weft-threads may be treated in the sameway, and both threads may be partly bound in, partly left unbound, where covered by the figure.

In order to more fully set forth our invention, we have illustrated the same on the accompanying drawings, on which- Figure 1 shows a plan of the fabric. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same on' the line the ground-bindin g.

SeriallIo.'11 8,363. (NonmdeL) fied arrangement.

' By b is marked the ground portion of the weavin g on which, for instance, the block initi'al f R is produced by the figure weft-thread ,'of' white 'orcol'ored material, and which may be thicker than the threads of the ground c'represents the warp-threads of I The ground-binding of the fabric differs fromthe binding of the fabric Where it is covered by the figurethat is to say, the warp-threads are not bound or portion.

interwoven with the weft where the figure warp-threads lie loosely between figure and threads 0 are arranged, as seen in Fig. 4, un-

derneath the ground-weft t' and the figureweft Ct or when the ground-threads are partly bound, partly unbound, under the figure. I11 all such cases the figure assumes a raised po sition over the ground fabric owing to the loosely-lying threads that form a cushion for the figure-threads.

In the manner described all names, monograms, combination-letters may be woven on pieces of cloth and then sewed to a fabric, or saidinitials may be directiy woven in a fabric White on white or colored on white, and such make will then be a full imitation of hand embroidery, which will be of the same Value, but cheaper and still more durable.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is- 1. Themethod of producing initialsmames, monograms and the like, which consists in weaving the ground of the fabric in taffeta or other suitable binding, floating the figuringwefts over the desired portions, and floating the ground warps and wefts, Without inter- Weaving, under the said figured portions, so Y ing and partly Without interweaving under 10 as to form a cushion forthefiguring-Wefts, as the said figured portions, so as to form a set forth. cushion for the figuring-Wefts, as set forth.

2. The method of producinvinitials names 5 monogranas and the like, which consists in Weaving the ground of the fabric in taffeta or other suitable binding, floating the figuring- \Vitnesses: wefts over the desired portions, and floating 'H UGO I-IARTMANN,

the ground warps and wefts partly interweav- T. A. RITTERSHAUS. 

